In the movie, Far and Away, there is a scene where Tom Cruise (Joseph Donnelly) tells Nicole Kidman (Shannon Something) in a perfectly articulated Irish accent, “America has got so much land they’re givin’ it away for free.”  Her response is to express incredulity.  To which Joseph replies with something like, “You’re a corker, Shannon.” [...]

Joe Vogel wrote a recent article in The Huffington Post entitled “A Mormon’s Lament: Church Is On the Wrong Side of History Again With Proposition 8.”  Where Vogel raises several controversial points and forces Mormons to ask some hard questions of themselves, Vogel doesn’t show any evidence of an ability to challenge his own assumptions.  [...]